Adjustable awning arm



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ADJUSTABLE AWNING ARM Filed Oct. '7, 1926 wwd w ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 12, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT- OFFICE.

ORVILLE E. PEASE .AN D NOZRBERT G. JOSEPH, F YORK, N. Y.

ADJUSTABLE AWNING ARM.

Application filed October 7. 1926. Serial No. 189,959.

This invention relates to side arms or supports for awnings of the kind adapted to fold against a vertical surface, such as a wall or store front, when not in use, while the awning fabric is wound upon a roller through the instrumentality, generally, of winding devices.

Arms or supports for awnings of. this character have, heretofore, had to be made to measure for each particular installation.

The principal object of the present invention is the provision of an awning supporting arm which is capable of ad ustment to meet the requirements of practically any 1 installation, although the component elements thereof conform to standard specifications in the interest of quantity production. Accordingly, fittings are provided as connecting means adapted to be associated with certain ofthe elements of the supporting arm whereby the relation of parts may be varied as required dependent upon the conditions met with.

Awnings for store fronts, for instance,

are required under municipal ordinance, to have a certain clearance off the sidewalks. At the same time all .store fronts are not uniform, presenting a different location, n almost every instance, upon which to mount the supporting arms for the awning. While the elevation of the mounting or connection for the supporting arm on the store front may vary, and indeed be at times very much above the prescribed awning clearance, 1t

is imperative that the front or forward edge of the awning, and hence the outer end of the awning supporting arm, be maintained as low as permissible inorder that the shade may extend as far as possible towards the show window.

A further object of the invention is, therefore, the provision of an awning supporting arm capable of attachment, at any helght, 'within limits, above, say, the street level, but adjustable so that the outer end may be maintained at the permissible clearance. According to the invention, the supporting arm includes a compound lever, whereof the effective lengths of the lever-arms are ad- 'justable in steps by a connection therebetween, .while one of the lever arms is carried by a connecting element or bracket on the wall or store front which is'also adjustable to afford still further but smaller differences in the elevation of the outer end between each two adjustments in the effective lengths of the lever arms. More particularly, where the awning supporting arm includes crossed bars, as when it assumes the form of lazy tongs, the finer adjustment or, as it may be called, the vernier adjustment is effected by a connection of one bar with the wall or store front which permits varying the spacing of the inner ends of the said crossed bars.

The invention also seeks to provide an adjustable awning supporting arm which is capable of being folded against the wall or store front in a compact manner. 'To this end the adjustment of the effective lengths of the arms of the compound lever included in the awning support is so made as to retain the same or a predetermined ratio between the component parts.

These and other objects of the invention and the means for their attainment will be more apparent from the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment of the invention, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a view in side elevation showing one of the awning supporting arms in operative position on a wall or store front;

Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of the adjustable connection between twoof the arms of the awning support.

Fig. 3. is a view, in front elevation, of what may be called the vernier hinge by which the spacing of the connections of the crossed arm of the support may be varied.

In Fig. 1 only a single awning support in illustrated but it is to be understood that two or more are adapted to be used in every instance. The front wall of a building or show window is indicated by the vertical line 4.- and supported from the wall 4 at a suitable point above the show window, say, is a roller 5, about which the awning 6 is wound. At an available point below the roller 5 there are disposed, upon the wall 4, two lugs or brackets 7 and 8.

From the upper bracket 7, or hinge as it may be called, there extends what is in effeet a compound lever composed of the short arm 9 and a longer arm 10 to which a lever arm 11 extending from lug 8 is pivoted between its ends as at 12. At the outer end of the bar 11 there is pivoted a downwardly will rest.

extending arm 13 and both the arms 10 and 13 are pivoted at their outer ends in spaced relation to the inner end of an outwardly extending arm 14 to the outer end of which the-outer edge of the awning 6 is secured.

The bars 10 and 13 are preferably twin channels, as seen in Fig. 2, between which the arms 9, 11 and 14 extend, and the ends of the arms 10 are of such length as to abut against the adjacent edge of the arm 13 and form a bearing against which the arm That end 14' of the arm 14 to which the arm 10 is pivoted curves upwardly slightly as shown in the drawings.

It will be obvious that the relative position of the outer edge 16 of'the awning with respect to the brackets will depend upon the length of the compound lever 9-10 and hence the general inclination of the arm. To vary this inclination to meet specific requirements of a particular installation, the bar lO-is ivoted as at 17 upon a slide 18 which is slldable along the bar 9 and may be secured in present position by the set screws 19, determining thereby the efl'ective length of the bar 9. The effective length of the bar 10 is also adjustable. As shown, the bar 10 is provided with a plurality of, say six, holes 20 in any one of which the pivot or pin 17 may be placed.

In Fig. 1 in full lines, the pin 17 is shown in the inside or sixth hole and the position assumed by the support and hence the awning is illustrated.

In one physical embodiment, an adjustment of the pin 17 from one hole to the next, the slide being relatively stationary, will result in a drop of six inches at th outer edge 16.

Occasion may arise when a drop of less than, say six inches, is desirable in the outer edge 16. Provision is therefore made for a still finer adjustment by what is called the vernier hinge 7. It will be observed that hinge 7 is provided with an elongated slot 21 so that the pivot pin '22 may move toward or away from the bracket 8 and thus vary the spacing of the two pivots. To position the pivot 22 at a predetermined point in the slot 21 one face of the bracket iscorrugated as at 23 and 'the under face of the head 24 of the pin or bolt 22 is notched as at 25. It is thus only necessary to move the pin 22 to the desired position on the bracket 7 and take up on the nut 26 until the respective corrugations engage whereby the pin is retained in position.

In dotted lines, in Fig. 1, there is indicated, schematically, semi-open position of the awning.

After the proper adjustment has been made the surplus ends of rods 9 and 10 may be cut off, if desired.

It will thus be seen that an awning support has been provided which is adjustable to fit a particular situation although the component elementsmay be constructed as standard stock equipment.

Various modifications may be made in the character of the connections whereby the adjustment is efi'ected and no limitation is intended by the phraseology of the foregoing description or illustrations in the accompanying drawings except as indicated by the appended claims.

Having thus described the invention, we claim:

1. An awning supporting arm comprising, in combination, a pair of vertically spaced brackets, four crossed bars, one a compound lever comprising a pair of arms pivoted on the upper bracket, the second, a bar pivoted on the lower bracket and to the compound lever, a third pivoted to the single bar in the plane of the compound lever, a fourth pivoted to the compound lever and pivoted at its end to the third bar, the free end of the compound lever bein adapted to abut against the third bar w en extended, a slide reciprocal on one of the compound lever arms and carrying a pivot, means to secure the slide in predetermined position, a plurality of holes for the pivot formed in the adjacent end of the other lever arm, a hole formed in the inner end of the first named lever arm to register with a vertical slot formed in the first named bracket, and a bolt in the slot and said last named hole, said bolt and bracket being formed with cooperating corrugated surfaces.

2. An awning supporting arm including a compound lever comprising a pair of arms, a slide reciprocable on one of the lever arms and carryin a pivot, a. plurality of holes formed in t e other lever arm, a bracket formed with a slot, an aperture formed in the first named lever arm to register with the slot, a bolt passing through the last named hole and slot and corrugated means to position the bolt.

3. An awning supporting arm including a compound lever comprising a pair of arms, a' slide reciprocable on one of the. lever arms, a pivotal connection between the slide and the other lever arms and an adjustable pivotal connection for the first named lever arm.

4. An awning supporting arm including a compound lever comprising a pair of arms, a connecting element reciprocable on one of the lever arms, a pivotal connection between the connecting element and the other lever arm, adjusting means for the pivotal connection and securing means for the connecting element.

5. An awning supporting arm including a compound lever, an adjustable connection between a pair of the arms which form the compound lever and means for securing the mousse connection in its several adjusted positions 6. A pivotal bracket for an awning supporting arm comprising a member having two parallel walls formed with vertically extending and registering slots, corrugations formed on an outer surface of one wall, with the teeth forming the corrugation extending horizontally, a bracket arm supporting bolt passed through the slots and having a head and corrugations formed on the inner surface of the head to coact with the first named corrugations to secure the bolt in its vertically adjusted osition in the slot.

7. A pivotal bracket for an awning supporting arm comprising a member formed with an elongated slot and a corru atedsurface, an awning arm supporting b lt to pass through the slot and engaging means carried by the bolt to engage the corrugated surface, thus secure the bolt in adjusted position in the slot.

8. An awning supporting arm including a pair of crossed bars, one of said bars comprising a compound lever, an adjustable connection between the lever arms, a bracket connected with one of the arms, and an adjustable. bracket connected with the other arm.

9. An awning supporting arm including a pair of crossed arms, means for pivotally mounting one of the arms, and pivotal means for adjustably connecting the crossed arms.

10. In an awning support the combination of an upper arm pivotally mounted at one end, a lower arm pivotally mounted at one end, a connecting arm pivotally connected to both the upper and lower arms and means for varying'the pivotal connection between said connecting arm and one of the first named arms.

11. An awning'supporting arm including a compound lever, a connecting element reciprocable on one of the lever arms, means for securing said element in its adjusted position on ,said arm and a pivotal connection between said connecting element and the other lever arm.

12. An awning supporting arm including an arm, a slide adjustable along the length of said arm, and means for pivoting another arm to said slide and means for securing the slide on its associated arm thereby to fix the axis of rotation between the arms.

13. An awning supporting arm including a compound lever, two of the arms of which are crossed, one of said crossed arms provided with a line of holes and. a pivot pin carried bythe other crossed arm and adapted to engage selectively in any one of said holes thereby to vary the pivotal connection provided thereby between the two crossed arms.

14. The combination of an awning support including a pair of crossed arms, an adjustable pivotal connection between said arms, means for securing the connection in its adjusted position, a pair of brackets adapted to be secured to a supporting structure, one above the other, pivotal connections between said brackets and said arms, and adjustable means for varying the vertical distance between said last named pivotal connections.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 4 day of October, A. D. 1926.,

ORVILLE E. PEASE. NORBERT e. JOSEPH. 

